Sharpest Needle

Informationen zum Autor Renee Patrick is the pseudonym for married authors Rosemarie and Vince Keenan. Rosemarie is a research administrator and a poet. Vince is a screenwriter and a journalist. Both native New Yorkers, they currently live in Seattle, Washington. They have written two previous books starring Lillian Frost and Edith Head, Design for Dying and Dangerous to Know . Script for Scandal is their first book for Severn House. Klappentext RENEE PATRICK THE SHARPEST NEEDLE 1939, Los Angeles. Marion Davies has a problem. The actress has received poison pen letters highlighting an embarrassing event in her past from the mysterious 'Argus'. Can Lillian Frost and her friend and partner-in-crime, celebrated costume designer Edith Head, expose Argus before Argus exposes Marion? Lillian's boss, millionaire inventor Addison Rice, seems to think so, but when Lillian speaks to her idol, Marion is reluctant to reveal her secrets, fearful of jeopardizing her relationship with newspaper tycoon W.R. Hearst. Is a prankster simply trying to tarnish the reputation of one of Hollywood's leading ladies, or is something more sinister going on behind the scenes? As Lillian and Edith are drawn into increasingly dangerous and disturbing territory, their enquiries take an unexpected and stunningly dark twist . . . Zusammenfassung 1939, Los Angeles. Marion Davies, one of Hollywood's leading ladies, has received poison pen letters highlighting an embarrassing event in her past from the mysterious 'Argus'. Lillian Frost and her partner-in-crime Edith Head try to expose the writer before they expose Marion, but are drawn into increasingly dangerous and disturbing territory .

Product details

• Authors: Renee Patrick, Patrick Renee
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780727889287
• ISBN: 978-0-7278-8928-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: A Lillian Frost and Edith Head mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Hollywood, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, California, c 1930 to c 1939, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General, FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio